Sentences with phrase «cloaks in»

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers» Homes in New England is a tour de force — a novel disguised as a memoir, a mystery that cloaks itself in humor, and an artful piece of literature that bites the hand that breeds it.

The horror movie tropes function as a metaphor for the kind of racism that cloaks itself in platitudes of tolerance, the kind that hides in the shadows until something forces it out into the light.

«Ideal optical invisibility cloaks in air have a drawback,» Martin Wegener points out.

He cloaks himself in the flag, but he does not own it.

It cloaks itself in comfort, ignoring the politics of poverty, racism, sexism and homophobia that spreads oppression in the world like a fire out of control.

Google observed the rise of tabloid cloaking in 2016 — meaning ads that looked like news stories but ultimately led readers to a site selling a product, like weight - loss pills.

Unfortunately, the user didn't see the offer because it was cloaked in a moving slider and ended up being completely missed.

Procrastination is fear cloaked in nonchalance.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

Beyond that, however, the exact location of the mine, the original owner and the name of its purchaser are cloaked in mystery.

Turns out Allstar's «buy one, get one free» ad hook was allegedly cloaked in trickery.

Though cloaked in technological sophistication and jargon, defendants» fraud was simple at its core - defendants sold what they did not own, and misrepresented the nature of what they were selling.»

He manufactured a hostile takeover of the rump Progressive Conservatives, a merger in which his more radical, more muscular style of politics cloaked itself in a brand name that however tarnished was at least familiar and historic.

While the iTV product remains cloaked in secrecy, sources say Cupertino, Calif. - based Apple has approached Rogers and Bell as it actively pursues partnerships with Canadian carriers.

The expected bad news on Friday, June 5 that OPEC would not cut production was skillfully cloaked in positive statements about growing demand.

There is a greater risk that the clear opposition, even cloaked in elaborate references to Lincoln and both Roosevelts, might irk him.»

All you do is spew out random idiocy against atheists cloaked in a self - righteous, arrogant certainty of things you can not demonstrate.

Codependence finds subtle means of expression, all cloaked in piety and devotion.

The only difference being, in religious situations it's cloaked in god talk.

Or would import a lot of American teaching or values cloaked in Jesus - y language, conflating the two.

Was it a civilized step toward «death with dignity,» or a brutal turn, cloaked in the rhetoric of compassion, toward ridding ourselves of the burdensome among us?

At this moment he loses his monarchy.2 Let us take note that this concerns us all, for now in Jesus Christ we are all invested with this power and we have no right to cloak ourselves in good theology in order to evade our responsibilities.

People cloak it in spiritual language.

As must now be evident, the charismatic orientation may be cloaked in the style of those groups which call themselves charismatic or Pentecostal, but it is important to note that the charismatic negotiation is primarily a structure and as such may give form to the world views of persons and groups that do not adopt any of the features or practices of what is conventionally called charismatic religion.

And we should certainly dread whatever rough beast it is that is being bred in our ever coarser, crueler, more inarticulate, more vacuous popular culture; because, cloaked in its anodyne insipience, lies a world increasingly devoid of merit, wit, kindness, imagination, or charity.

They also attempted to cloak themselves in the mantle of Dr. King.

You intentionally cloaked yourself in a fantasy world to get away from the harsh, cruel reality.

As long as we continue to club the other Presbyterians into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religion.

This mentality is cloaked in a robe of false humility, but upon revelation, it is a clever disguise to an arrogant self - gratification that despises others.

As long as Presbyterians continue to club the other into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religion.

It's cloaked in anger.

That may well sound more like «native» English, but at the cost of seeming faintly repetitious, merely rhetorical, and without the elegant little development of the Hebrew — which, merely through the verb, moves from an intimation of light as a garment in the first half - line to an explicit simile of God's wrapping light around him like a cloak in the second half.

Terry Jones ain't no lunatic — he is just a clear manifestation of common muslim and christian lunatic ideas polluting much of the planet (note, I am not anti-religious, just anti-crazy ideas cloaked in the sanctity of religion).

You keep trying to excuse the RCC's criminal activities by cloaking them in silly philosophical arguments.

It is hard after so many years of being cloaked in falsehood to see clearly.

It is not exactly a request but more of a demand barely cloaked in a statement of fact.

Plus it is very difficult to expose when it is cloaked in what looks like love, care and what is called biblical discipline.

Modestly cloaked in starched apron garb, Rachel Held Evans serves a feast to thoughtful men and women who are hungry for insight.»

You, on the other hand, are a racist bigot, cloaked in false piety, who hides behind the Bible, used to reinforce your hatred of whole groups of people who you can not hold a candle to.

Your statement is simply ignorance cloaked in fear of being wrong.

When kindness is cloaked in unrecognized selfishness, we hurt those around us.

Where this clashes with scientific evidence, the latter is always secondary to the former and his message, although often cloaked in scientific jargon, is simple and unequivocal; indeed one of his favourite lecture topics is «Why, as a Geologist, I Believe in Noah's Flood».

It's disheartening to see how political pundits have hijacked the word «liberal» and cloaked it in divisive garb.

they just cloaked themselves in a christian mask.

Democratic freedoms are, or soon could be, trampled on by the misuse of elections, disinformation campaigns, the concentration of economic power, and the abuse of presidential powers cloaked in the secrecy of covert operations.

It is farcical to hear anthems of victimhood being spouted by corporate swindlers who despoil shareholders of their pensions, or by indicted politicians who cloak themselves in the imagery of martyrs for the Christian faith.

But to do something about this requires that we face government's economic responsibilities directly rather than cloaking them in the guise of national defense.

They want everything to be cloaked in secrecy and silence.

Even when He did come in the person of Jesus Christ, He came masked in human flesh, cloaking Himself in humility and frailty.

What a choice of churches we have, Conservative Pharisaic sectarians or Liberal enablers with their «soft» secular humanism cloaked in God - words.